Chapter four up and ready to go! With the advent of the Al Bhed imminent, lets see how our new duo fairs with them, plus a sinister character begins to plague Kaiser's dreams, read on and find out whats going down. Plus I dont own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Final Fantasy.
Chapter Four: The Al Bhed Fiasco - Voices Disturb My Sleep
"You know, your only here because I want you here" spoke a voice.
"What?" I say in reply.
"Your hear to give my your power, and for no other reason. Interfeer and Ill kill you without a second thought" spoke the voice.
"Who are you?" I ask.
"You know who I am, but lets just wait until we meet"
I suddenly awake with a jerk, realising that im still lying on my back looking up at the remains of the Baaj Temple ceiling. Sitting up I take a look around. The Fox Fire I had summoned was still sleeping on the ground, and Tidus seemed to be sleeping sat up almost. How that was comfy was beyond me, yet I could hear him snoring. Standing up I stretched my arms and legs, getting the sleep out of my system, I didnt know how long id slept, but my clothes were now dry, and none the worse for wear either. But what was most troubling in my mind at the time was the voice I heard while I was sleeping, it felt somewhat familiar, but then again I couldnt place the voice, and what was this about giving it my power? What power? The Fayth was right when he said the rules had changed on Spira, only problem was id yet to find out how far those rules had changed. My thoughts were interrupted as I hear Tidus awake with a start, shuddering he looked around quickly, before he saw me.
"Whats matter Tye? Bad dream or something?" I ask him.
Shaking his head to clear it, he stands up and stretches. "Nah... its nothing, dont worry bout it" He replies
A flash of lightning and a loud screeh interrupts us suddenly, instantly the both of us look up at the source of the noise. On the side of the temple wall its a rather nasty looking large Fiend. Looking down at us with glowing red eyes it begins to suddenly run along the sides of the walls in a circle. Neither of us take our eyes of the beast, within a few seconds it had jumped down onto the ground floor and was facing us, growling at us menacingley. Unstrapping the sword once more from his back, Tidus groans.
"Gimme a break!" he cries.
"Same here!" I shout.
The Fiend before us was Klikk, and it wasnt a pleasant customer either, it looked like some kind of Scorpion, with four legs to walk on with three knife type toes on each one, those knife toes looked quite sharp, not that its large set of fangs in its mouth were much to look at either. Tidus wasted no time in attacking, jumping forward he slashed at the beast with his sword, he made a direct hit on the creatures body, but didnt pentrate its hard skin, however the beast did cry out in rage at the attack and tried to slash back at Tidus, who jumped to the side to avoid the strike. It was at this point that I realised that the Fox Fire I had summoned was now stood up and standing before me, curled up in an aggressive stance, looking towards the Fiend. The only problem was I had no idea what to do. I didnt know how to command my beast, but I realised I needed to help Tidus. He was loosing ground to the creature fast, it had gone on the attack, slashing at him repeatedly, Tidus was jumping back forth avoiding the slashes. However he tripped over some rubble and landed on his back, the Fiend roared in triumph as it prepared to pounce on him. Realising that I had no other options I took the simple approach.
"Fox Fire! Attack it now!" I shouted, pointing at the Fiend.
Within half a second my monster was on the move, although it was small, it moved like the wind, and pounced onto the back of Klikk, raising its head Fox Fire sunk its teeth into the back of the Fiends neck. The Fiend cried out in agony at the attack, and began to thrash around, trying to get my monster off of it. Tidus took this chance to get back up and regroup, giving me a thumbs up in the process. The Fiend was still thrashing around, trying to get Fox Fire off of its back. In the end it won out, and Fox Fire was thrown through the air, however with a twist and a turn, Fox Fire landed nimbly on its feet, and ran back over to stand before me. Tidus and I now had the monster in a pincer attack, we were both on either side of it. Tidus nodded towards me as he went on the attack, taking a swipe at Klikk at its exposed back. It roared in pain and swiped out with a claw as it turned, trying to slice Tidus in half, he jumped back to avoid the shot, then I realised this was my chance. The creature was now once again exposed before me, looking down at my monster I started to think. If Fox Fire is a fire attribute monster, can it use fire type magic in this world? Worth a shot as far as I could see it.
"Fox Fire! Attack the Fiend with Fire!" I shout.
All the hairs on Fox Fire began to stand on end as it prepared its attack. The flame on its tail intensified into a small fireball, and with a flick of its tail, the fireball sped towards the Fiend and landed on its once again exposed back. The Fiend ignited for a second instantly, screaming a horrible sound in pain. Before it had time to recover, another explosion rocked the temple. The two double doors at the side of the room suddenly exploded. Shielding our eyes from the explosion, our attention was drawn to the now open door. In the door way stood a group of people in strange face masks and body suits, they seemed to be also wielding guns from the looks of it.
"The Al Bhed, Rikku should be with them" I thought.
After another flash of lightning, I could indeed see a young girl in a body suit and mask standing at the front of the group. With several bands of blond hair sticking out of the mask, I could tell that it was Rikku. Flexing her hands quickly, she walked towards where Tidus was standing, before taking up a battle stance with him.
"You on our side? Cool!" he exclaimed
Rikku nodded, then simply pulled out a hand grenade from the front of her suit and lobbed it at the Fiend, it exploded on contact, killing it instantly, it dropped to the floor and disolved into pyreflies. Tidus started to breath heavy after the fight, trying to recover, I on the other hand placed my monster card back into my deck, as the duel disk disengaged, Fox Fire bounded back towards the rubble where it had appeared from and disappeared. Although I did note that a rather large cloud of pyreflies suddenly came out from the rubble. Deciding now wasnt the best time to once again moan about how it worked I walked over to Tidus's side as he stood back up. Both of us looked over at Rikku, who within a couple of seconds removed her face mask, so that we could see her face, Tidus seemed quite suprised at seeing her, although he did recover quickly.
"Phew, that was close" he said with a smile.
The other four male Al Bhed now advanced on us, one stopping behind Tidus and grabbing him by the hair.
"Hey lemme go!" Tidus yelled in surprise.
Another of the Al Bhed moved towards me to try and grab me, but as I was ready for him I lifted up my left arm, showing my duel disk and gave him a death glare. For some reason it actually did work, as he seemed to moved back, but that didnt stop them long as the remaining three bared thier rifles down at Tidus and I.
"Fryd ec drec?" spoke the one holding Tidus.
"Y fiend eh risyh teckieca!" said the second
"Oac, ed ec cu!" threw in the third.
"Fa gemm ed?" said the last one.
At that point the Al Bhed that had spoke last drew a knife from his belt and held it to Tidus's throat. I gulped as I hoped that Tidus wouldnt try anything.
Fyed!" Rikku interrupted "Fryd ev ed ec y risyh?"
"Drao yna ymm dra cysa eh taydr." Came the one with the knife.
"E vunpet ed." she replied firmly "Fa pnehk ed fedr ic." she said finally.
The one holding Tidus with the knife let him go and pushed him forward, Rikku stepped forward and moved close to him, Tidus's eyes widened in suprise.
"Cunno." she said softly
With that she gave him a lethal knee shot to the stomach, completely knocking the wind out of him, within a few more seconds he had passed out on the floor. Now that Tidus was out, all the Al Bhed now looked over at me, once again I raised my duel disk and pointed my other arm out in defence. Despite the rifles, the Al Bhed seemed to be hesitant in trying to approach me. They started to coverse with each other quickly, and considering how my Al Bhed was kind rusty, I couldnt really understand what they were saying. Although I did hear one say a simple line.
"Y Duelist!"
I knew that the source of their fears was now clearly me, or the fact that the recognised that I was a Duelist. In the end, the four male Al Bhed moved back and Rikku started to move towards me. Not wanting to get knocked out like Tidus did, I moved into an aggressive stance.
"Stay back!" I said fiercely.
Rikku held up her hands, in what I gathered was a sign of peace.
"Its ok, we arnt gonna hurt you, we were just worried about your duel disk is all" she said sweetly.
Relaxing my guard slightly I lowered my arms.
"What do you want?" I asked.
Rikku smiled at me, seemingley quite glad my duel disk was out of the way.
"Well we want to take you back to our ship, my friends here, thought you friend was a Fiend, so I had to knock him out to stop them from killing him" she said. Nodding I motioned for her to continue.
"But they dont want you to see where we are headed, top secret mission and all, so they want you knocked out for the trip... but looking at your duel disk they were afraid to try and force you" she said nodding towards my duel disk.
Looking down at my duel disk myself, even more questions were coming to mind, why were the Al Bhed so afraid of me? For now I decided best thing to do was play along and get out of this temple.
"What do you propose?" I ask
Smiling once more, Rikku reached into her pocket and pulled out some power, and she held it out in her hand.
"This is Sleep Power, one whiff and your sound asleep, more than enough time for us to be off, so you coming with us then? Unless you prefer to stay here?" she asked.
Knowing that I didnt have much of a choice, I took the power from her and sat on the floor, placing it near my nose, I inhaled sharpley and felt and overwhelming tiredness assail my mind. Within a few more seconds, my eyes grew heavy, until they closed completely, I felt myself hit the floor, but it didnt matter for in the next instant I was sound asleep on the floor.
"Trusting fool" spoke the voice.
"How do you figure that one out?" I reply.
"You let them take you so easily... For all you know they could slit your throat in your sleep" Spoke the voice.
"And you care because?" I ask.
"Because your power belongs to me... So if your dead then my plans would take a setback somewhat" Spoke the voice.
Some time later...
I awake to find myself on something soft, and rather comfy, opening my eyes, I see that im lying on a bed, I sit up quickly with a start, unsure of where I am. Looking around the room, I can see that the walls are entirely metal, with only a single door as a means of exit. Jumping off the bed I check myself, everything seems to be there, and my duel disk and deck are still there. Stepping slowly towards the door, I turn the handle. Its locked. Big suprise there. Admiting defeat I sit back down on the bed, processing what was going on. I was pretty sure that Tidus would be up on deck, but I had no idea why I was inside the ship, and being treated quite well for that matter.
But for now my thoughts were once again back to the strange voice in my dreams as I slept. Who was it that kept coming to me in my sleep? All I knew for now was that it had some if not a lot of interest in me, and secondly, it wasnt the most nicest person in the world. But once again the plight that I was currently in, took precedence at the moment, beacuse I didnt know how long I would be stuck in this room. I didnt have to wait too much longer, as within a few minutes I hear the lock slowly turning in the door, and the door opening shortly afterwards. Standing in the doorway is Rikku, with a tray of food in her hands. Stepping into the room, she smiles at me and places the food onto the bed next to me before stepping back.
"Hungry? Eat this, its some of the best food we can get out here" she says.
Gingerley I start to eat the meal, it was quite good to be honest, I wasnt expecting it to be, for some reason, but then again I was starving, so anything would tase good at this point. After I had finished I placed my tray back down on the bed, and stood up, hoping to talk to Rikku.
"Why am I in here? And wheres my friend?" I ask
"He's on deck, hes resting at the moment. We had him do a little job for us while you were still out, though I have to say, he does tire out easily dosnt he?" she giggles.
I couldnt help but laugh myself, well I do have to give into my evil side every now and again, especially with how much he had laughed at me in Baaj Temple.
"Asked for why your in here, well..." Rikku's eyes fell to my duel disk.
"There arnt many Duelist's left in Spira, not real ones anyway, just a handful at best, chosen by each temple as thier champion, the eternal Guardians of a Summoner. There are some other duelists in the world, but not too many of them either. So what im thinking right now is where is your Summoner?" Rikku finished
"Temple champions? Eternal Guardians to the Summoners? The rules truly have changed here" I think to myself.
Rikku began to look at me, hopefully wanting an answer, once again I realised it was cover story time.
"I dont have a Summoner, I dont know how I got to where I was, I dont know anything about myself." Sighing I look to the ground, trying to act convincingley.
"I know places, people, whats what and all, and I even know about my duel disk, but for some reason I cant remember a thing about myself, except for my name." Sighing once more I turn my head to the ceiling.
"I did hear once that people who get too close to Sin, suffer some sort of amnesia, maybe I got too close to Sin and it wiped my memory of myself." Rikku seemed to be buying into the story as she put her hand sympathetically on my shoulder.
"Its ok, ill try to help the best I can and get you and your friend back to the mainland..." She gave me a sweet smile when she finished.
Standing up she spun around on her heels, and then extended her arm towards me.
"Well just so you know... my names Rikku, nice to meet you Mr err... sorry I realised I never asked your name!" Rikku said
Extending my hand to hers, I take it and shake her hand from my sitting point on the bed.
"My name is... my name is Kaiser, The Dark Warrior, nice to meet you Rikku" I say.
I didnt get a chance to finish our handshake as Rikku pulled away, the look of horror on her face made my blood run cold. She leans agains the wall with her hand clasped firmly over her mouth. Standing up I look at her confused.
"Did I say something wrong?" I ask
Rikku calming down somewhat takes a few deep breaths before speaking.
"No...no its nothing... just, until you get your memory back... I really wouldnt tell anyone about that Dark Warrior thing... ok?" She says stammering.
"Ok" I say, now more than a little confused.
"Okie dokey then" she says.
Gathering herself together she opens the door and picks up another tray of food that was outside, looking over her shoulder she speaks.
"Lets go feed your friend then! Come on the Kaiser!" she says with a forced smile.
Without a word I follow her as she takes us through the ship towards the deck. My mind was occupied with what had just happened.
"Why did she go all postal when I said The Dark Warrior? What does it mean?" I think to myself.
As Rikku and I walked along the interior of the ship my mind was still processing her reaction to my 'Dark Warrior' persona. I had no idea why she had reacted the way she did. Did it mean something on Spira? Either way I wasnt going to find out now as pretty soon we were on the main deck. As we walked across the deck, I could see Tidus lying down next to some kind of crates. Moaning loudly all the while.
"Ahhhhh huuungry!" he complained
Both us of walked towards him and once in range, Rikku gave him a sharp kick on his arm startling him, he looked up instantly to see both of us looking down at him.
"Hey Kasier! Glad to see your ok man! where you..." he trailed off
His words were interrupted as Rikku put down the tray of food before him, almost foaming at the mouth, he started to chow down straight away.
"Whoa! Right on!" he yelled.
Watching Tidus eat almost made me want to vomit up my meal, he was eating so fast I doubt that he was even chewing it.
"Your a pig, you know that Tye?" I say
Rikku standing beside me simply shook her head in disbelief at him, but he wasnt listening too busy chowing down on his food. That is until he started to choke. Coughing and spluttering he looked around for something to drink, until he spied a bottle of water in Rikku's hands that he snatched away, drinking rapidly to stop himself choking.
"Hey!" Rikku said. I found this highly amusing and started to laugh really loud at Tidus, he was funny in his own peculiar way.
"It's cus you eat too fast!" she said crouching down to his height.
Standing up after coughing out the last of his food, he moved away and started to stretch.
"Hey!" Rikku said following after him
Turning round Tidus looked at her before speaking.
"Hello there. What is your name?" He asked politely
"Rikku." she said
"Whoa!" Tidus shouted.
He grabbed hold of her hands and started dancing around with her, earning a chuckle from myself while he was doing so, Rikku on the other hand had to pull her hands away from him as he was jumping around
"You really do understand!" He said laughing, walking around the deck.
"Huh?" He said noticing me again
"Yeah nice to see you too Tye, completely forget im here why dont you?" I say with a grin.
Tidus smiling at me, gave me a playful punch on the arm.
"Oh come on man! lighten up! I mean I was just excited to realise that she understood me and we werent alone on this ship!" he said with a smile.
"Fair enough then" I say, returning the punch, possibly a bit too hard in the process... Just for good measure.
Tidus then turned his attention back to Rikku rubbing his sore arm in the process. "Uh...why didn't say you understood us earlier?" he asked
"I didn't get a chance to." she explained hurriedly "Everyone thought oui were a fiend. Asked for Kaiser, well they knew he was a Duelist and wernt too eager to try and force him."
Tidus looked back over his shoulder at me, wanting some sort of explanation "Ill tell you later, and ive met Rikku earlier" I say. With a nod he turned back to her.
"Uh...we?"
"Oh, oui means you." She replies.
"Uh...who are you guys anyway?"
"There Al Bhed, couldnt you tell by their language?" I say jumping in
By now Rikku had walked to the railing and was starting out over the ocean with her back to us
"Yeah Kaiser's right, we are the Al Bhed... Wait!" she cried turning back "You're not an Al Bhed hater are you?" she said looking at Tidus.
"I don't even know what an Al Bhed is." he said sounding cofused.
"Where you from?" Rikku asked
"Zanarkand." he proclaimed proudly "I'm a blitzball player. Star Player of the Zanarkand Abes." He said making a kicking motion as he spoke.
"Oh Tidus you idiot!" I think to myself.
Rikku took a glance towards me, and with a shrug I shook my head towards her and put my palm on my face. For some reason I knew that I would be doing a lot of facepalming around Tidus.
"Did you...hit your head or something?" She asked him
"Um...you guys hit me." he said walking sheepishly towards her
Walking behind him, I slapped him one on the back of the head. Earning a grunt from Tidus.
"Owww! What was that for?" he said angrily
"For stating the obvious nimrod" I say in return, causing Rikku to laugh to herself at us.
"Oh right... Sorry about before" she said, turning back around "Do you remember anything before that?"
"So I told her everything there was to tell about Zanarkand. About life there, blitzball and Sin's attack. And about how Auron and I were engulfed in this light. I just said things as they came to mind. But then I started to wonder." Tidus narrates
"You know ive never fully appreciated looking out over the ocean, seeing how peaceful it is, well... more peaceful than the ocean back home. So clear and inviting here. Everything is. I think by the time everything is done, I wont want to leave Spira" I narrate
"Did I say something funny?" he inquired seeing the look of mild shock upon her small face.
"You were near Sin." she said simply
He bowed his head "Uh huh."
"Don't worry!" she assured brightly "You'll be better in no time, you and Kaiser. They say your head gets funny when Sin is near. Maybe you had some kind of dream?" She offered
"You mean we're both sick?" Tidus said glancing at me
"From Sin's toxin, yeah." Rikku added
"You sure?" he said
I gave him another slap across the back of his head.
"She just said it twice ya daft sod" I say, earning a laugh from Rikku and another glare from Tidus.
"Yeah, there is no Zanarkand anymore. Sin destroyed it a thousand years ago." she said "So no-one play blitzball there!"
Tidus froze as she skipped away "Huh?"
"Whaddya mean, a thousand years ago?" he cried "But I saw Sin attack Zanarkand! You're saying that happened a thousand years ago!...No way!" he cried
"You said... you play blitzball?" Rikku quizzed suddenly as she played with the straps on her goggles.
"Yeah.." he groaned
"You know, you should go to Luca." she suggested. "Someone might know who you are or you might find someone you recognise, you too Kaiser, might both find someone you know there."
"Luca?" Tidus asked
"Aaahhh." Both I and Rikku groaned
Tidus groaned too, while I just stood there facepalming.
"This is gonna be one hell of a fun time!" I think to myself sarcastically.
Rikku on the other hand was pacing around the deck, before coming to both myself and Tidus, tapping us both on the shoulder
"Okay, leave it to me! I'll get you both to Luca, promise!" she said enthusiastically.
Tidus sort of cringed at the sound of that, whereas I looked quite hopeful.
"You'd rather stay here!" she asked
"Uh-uh." he shook his head vigorously.
"Long as the companys good" I say with a smile, earning a giggle from Rikku.
"Okay, I'll go tell the others. Wait here."
We watched as she scuttled off toward the mechanical doors, her blonde ponytail bobbing comically onto top of her head.
"Oh and one thing-" her voice became rather solem as she halted suddenly "Don't tell anyone you're from Zanarkand ok? Yevon says it's a holy place, you might upset someone, and we already talked about what I said to you Kaiser, you too."
"Oh...ok..." Tidus said before looking at me.
"Another tell you later" I finish.
With a brief grin she dashed off indoors to tell the rest of the crew. Tidus and I returned to watching the ocean from the railing for a while longer, looking over at him, I could tell that he was in deep thought, I mean wouldnt you? He'd just heard his home was destroyed, not only that but it was a thousand years ago. That kind of stuff messes with your head.
"You ok Tye? you seem troubled?" I say hoping for a response.
"Nah... its nothing" He says
"You sure? Wanna share?" I ask hopefully
"Sorry, just need some time to think" he says, before walking to the other side of the deck. I see him lean against the crates, thinking.
Turning back, my attention is back onto the sea, normally I would have been annoyed that he wouldnt share, but I did kinda feel sorry for him, he didnt have a home to go back to, and neither did I. Well I did technically, just that there wasnt anything there for me to go back to.
"My Zanarkand, some kind of holy place? Yeah right, I thought. Since when? Yevon? Sin? Luca? I thought Sin had just took me to a far away place. That I could go back in a day or two. But a thousand years into the future?" Tidus narrates
"Poor guy, he'd just been dealt a major mind fuck, and not of the nice variety either. How would you feel if you heard your home was destroyed and it was a thousand years ago? On top of that, he has all these questions about Spira now, he took it all rather well actually, better than I would have. I just wish I could tell him the truth, but I know that I cant, he needs to find this out by himself. At least I can be there to help him along the way." I narrate
"No Way!" Tidus shouts all of a sudden.
I hear him kicking the crates behind him. Then the whole ship began to rock, I grabbed hold of the bars for support. Tidus shortly after came rolling across the deck towards me, sticking my leg out I stopped him going overboard.
"You do realise your such a jinx AGAIN!" I say in anger.
Looking over the sea, I see the waters beginning to gush up into the air, slowly coming towards the ship. Meanwhile several Al Bhed exited the holds and came running onto the deck, being thrown all over the place for thier troubles. Running over to the railings they all began to shout, I didnt need to speak Al Bhed to understand what they were saying. Sin had come.
"SIN!"
"SIN EC LUSA!"
"IHTAN IC IHTAN IC!"
As the water got closer I realised out fate, the waves pummeled the ship from all side, sending water across the decks in a deadly tidlewave. Tidus was the first to go, he was swept from the ship and straight into the water. I held on as long as I could, but in the end the water won out and I was dragged overboard with him. Taking one last look up at the ship before I hit the water, I see the Al Bhed on deck watching us, Rikku was there frantically waving at us. But within another few seconds both Tidus and I were dragged into the whirlpool created by Sin, and were dragged under.
Chapter four out of the way! The tropical island of Besaid is next! And whats with all the wierdness on the duel disks and Kaisers name of 'The Dark Warrior'? And who was the voice in Kaiser's dream? Read on to find out
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